When humankind proves resistant to improvement, it is because forces of darkness – wicked priests, demagogic politicians, predatory corporations and the like – are working to thwart the universal struggle for freedom and enlightenment.
The fact that limb movements in reaching are sensitive to the effects of PD and are resistant to improvement with drug medication provides an opportunity for evaluating whether accompanying preferred musical pieces lessens the impairments in sensory and motor control.
Despite this, exclusivity and duration in developed countries remains resistant to improvement.
In other words, some teeth and tooth surfaces are more resistant to improvement in a population than others, which militates against children becoming completely free of caries.
Moreover, while impressive gains have been achieved in reducing under-5 mortality, neonatal mortality has proven resistant to improvement and now accounts for 57% of all deaths of children under the age of 5 [ 2].
In contrast, despite advances in surgical and non-surgical treatments, the overall 3 5-year survival rates for patients presenting with HPV−ve SCCHN remains resistant to improvement at 50–60%, Fakhry et al (2008) and Ang et al (2010).
Education has proved stubbornly resistant to the improvements in productivity that technology has brought to other jobs.
All the survey evidence indicates that levels of scientific literacy are highly resistant to efforts at improvement.
This study suggests antireflux surgery may improve cough that is resistant to medical therapy, and that the improvement is sustained.
For decades, it has been plain that new houses are unimaginative, overpriced, undersized and resistant to the kind of technical improvement that is standard in industries such as car making.
